+++ title = "apollo" description = "Modern and minimalistic blog theme" template = "theme.html" date = 2026-03-05T22:45:50+01:00

[taxonomies] theme-tags = []

[extra] created = 2026-03-05T22:45:50+01:00 updated = 2026-03-05T22:45:50+01:00 repository = "https://github.com/not-matthias/apollo.git" homepage = "https://github.com/not-matthias/apollo" minimum_version = "0.14.0" license = "MIT" demo = "https://not-matthias.github.io/apollo"

[extra.author] name = "not-matthias" homepage = "https://github.com/not-matthias" +++

apollo

Modern and minimalistic blog theme powered by Zola. See a live preview here.

_{^{Named after the greek god of knowledge, wisdom and intellect}}

Features

• Pagination
• Themes (light, dark, auto)
• Projects page
• Analytics using GoatCounter / Umami / Google Analytics
• Social Links
• MathJax Rendering
• Taxonomies
• Meta Tags For Individual Pages
• Custom homepage
• Comments
• Search
• RSS feeds
• Mermaid diagram support
• Table of Contents
• Configurable cards layout

Installation

1. Download the theme

git submodule add https://github.com/not-matthias/apollo themes/apollo

2. Add the following to the top of your config.toml

theme = "apollo"
taxonomies = [{ name = "tags" }]

[extra]
theme = "auto"
socials = [
  # Configure socials here
]
menu = [
  # Configure menu bar here
]

# See this for more options: https://github.com/not-matthias/apollo/blob/main/config.toml#L14

3. Copy the example content

cp -r themes/apollo/content/* content/

Configuration

Checkout all the options you can configure and the example pages.

References

This theme is based on archie-zola.